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<h2> Are peptide aptamers the new black? </h2>
 
<h2> Are peptide aptamers the new black? </h2>
<p> We created a questionnaire designed to generate an idea of how much people generally know about antibodies, peptide aptamers and their opinions about usage of laboratory animals.  
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<p> When making a project that significantly changes the agenda for antibody production and use, it is important to shed light on the people’s opinion. Is there at all a common demand for our idea?  To get these answers we conducted a survey (questionnaire) asking people about their opinion on the use of laboratory animals in scientific research and antibody production.
 
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<h3> Responses </h3>  
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<h3> The Respondents </h3>  
 
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260 people endowed, representing five continents; Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia or the Ocenian Region.
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The questionnaire was available for one month and shared via our accounts on facebook and twitter. To get answers from all over the world we send out the questionnaire to various iGEM teams asking them to help sharing it. The questionnaire brought in answers from 291 people. These people were primarily from Europe, but also people from North and South America, Asia and Australia answered. The majority of the respondents were young people in the ages of 19-29 and roughly 2/3 was either working or studying in the fields of life sciences such as biochemistry, molecular biology, bioengineering or medicine.
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<h3> Results </h3>
 
<h3> Results </h3>
 
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When asked the question "Would you prefer if antibodies (or an antibody alternative) was produced in bacteria, such as E. coli?" 71,8% said "yes", 3,1% "no" and 25,2% aswered "don't care". 
 
 
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From the data above, it is shown that most people (60 %) in general have an ambivalent perspective on the use of laboratory animals in scientific research. When asked specifically one the use of laboratory animals to produce antibodies 87 % of the respondents believe it is okay to use them. At first sight, this data indicates that people actually do not mind the use of laboratory animals when it concern production of antibodies. However, when asked to if they would prefer if antibodies were produced in an alternate organism like E. coli, 71 % of the respondents agrees that they indeed would prefer if an organism like E. coli produced antibodies.
 
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Revision as of 17:55, 13 September 2015

Are peptide aptamers the new black?

When making a project that significantly changes the agenda for antibody production and use, it is important to shed light on the people’s opinion. Is there at all a common demand for our idea? To get these answers we conducted a survey (questionnaire) asking people about their opinion on the use of laboratory animals in scientific research and antibody production.

The Respondents

The questionnaire was available for one month and shared via our accounts on facebook and twitter. To get answers from all over the world we send out the questionnaire to various iGEM teams asking them to help sharing it. The questionnaire brought in answers from 291 people. These people were primarily from Europe, but also people from North and South America, Asia and Australia answered. The majority of the respondents were young people in the ages of 19-29 and roughly 2/3 was either working or studying in the fields of life sciences such as biochemistry, molecular biology, bioengineering or medicine.

Results


From the data above, it is shown that most people (60 %) in general have an ambivalent perspective on the use of laboratory animals in scientific research. When asked specifically one the use of laboratory animals to produce antibodies 87 % of the respondents believe it is okay to use them. At first sight, this data indicates that people actually do not mind the use of laboratory animals when it concern production of antibodies. However, when asked to if they would prefer if antibodies were produced in an alternate organism like E. coli, 71 % of the respondents agrees that they indeed would prefer if an organism like E. coli produced antibodies.

Conclusion

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